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Pottermore, the digital content company for J K Rowling's
Harry Potter books, returned to growth in its last financial year as the
firm’s decision to make its e-books and audiobooks available via Amazon,
Apple, Audible and others “really paid off”.
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Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer Sir William
Trevor has died, aged 88.
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Independent bookshops are gearing up for a second year of
events to mark “Civilised Saturday” – billed as the antidote to the mayhem
of deep discounting day Black Friday.
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Faber has appointed Maria Garbutt-Lucero to the position of
publicity and campaigns manager with immediate effect.
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Molly Flatt, associate editor for FutureBook and digital
editor for Phoenix
magazine, is publishing a debut novel, set between the cafés of
Shoreditch and the wilds of Orkney, with Pan Macmillan.
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Elena Lappin will be leaving her role as editor-at-large for
One, an imprint of Pushkin Press, in Spring 2017.
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Bruce Springsteen's memoir Born
to Run (Simon & Schuster) has been longlisted for the
Penderyn Music Book Prize alongside memoirs from musicians Johnny Marr and
Robbie Robertson.
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How Machines Work by David Macaulay (Dorling
Kindersley) was today announced as the winner of the £10,000 Royal
Society’s Young People’s Book Prize 2016, which champions the best science
books for under-14s.
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American bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has appointed
Demos Parneros to the role of chief operating officer, effective
immediately.
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Gollancz has acquired High
Stakes, the 23rd book in the Wild Card series, a
long-running sci-fi and superhero series co-edited by bestselling
author George R R Martin and Melinda M Snodgrass.
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OWN IT! has signed a "very special debut" by poet J
J Bola entitled No Place
to Call Home following a "keenly and closely
contested" auction.
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